What We’re Reading January 5, 2015

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So without further ado, here’s what we’re reading Monday January 5, 2015.

Maybe the Arab Spring wasn’t what Liberals the world over thought it would be? Apparently the Arab Spring has sparked the biggest migrant wave on our planet since World War II.

Anecdotal evidence may be hard to ignore, but the fact of the matter is that racism as a political factor has basically (and for all practical purposes) disappeared.

White racism, once such a powerful force in US politics, is now almost undetectable when Americans go to the polls.

Jason Riley, author of the new book “Please Stop Helping Us,” observes that the trend “was most pronounced in red states like Alabama, Kentucky, and Mississippi,” and that black voter turnout in 2012 surpassed white turnout by statistically significant margins . . . [even] in states with the strictest voter-ID laws.”

“Now!” is the compact variation on “the time for debate is over,” which, as Jonah Goldberg points out, it always is when a Democrat is losing the argument. But it’s the same time when the Left is winning the argument, too.

History never repeats, but sometimes things circle back in intriguing ways. How else to explain parallels between 1992 and 2016, with a pair of candidates named Clinton, at the start of their presidential campaigns, shadowed by liberal icons of the Democratic Party?

About the author

Onan Coca

Onan is the Editor-in-Chief at Liberty Alliance media group. He's also the managing editor at Eaglerising.com, Constitution.com and the managing partner at iPatriot.com. You can read more of his writing at Eagle Rising.
Onan is a graduate of Liberty University (2003) and earned his M.Ed. at Western Governors University in 2012. Onan lives in Atlanta with his wife and their three wonderful children.